Maintaining your website

There are many different reasons why a website can falter. Server upgrades can cause blips, extra features can conflict with coding, or your dental website may be incompatible with a new internet browser. By regularly testing and carrying out necessary checks, design4dentists can ensure all functionality is operating correctly.

Features

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Special features

Many dental websites have special features and functionality included such as online enquiry forms, patient referral forms and treatment finance calculators. It is important these are tested and set-up to filter any misuse or spamming.

Websites may also display animated effects or action buttons that require specific scripting or bespoke coding. If these are not operating it may prevent users from seeing or clicking through to vital content.

Videos

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Videos

Videos are now a very popular engagement tool and are fed through other portals or websites such as YouTube, Vimeo, Blogs as well as many other social media platfoms. It is essential these are checked and played as they can easily disappear if the link feed breaks or the video has been removed from its original source.

WordPress

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WordPress

WordPress is a popular website platform for dentists. It originated as a blog facility but developers from all over the world extended its usage by creating web page templates and plugins to add extra functionality. These features do require regular checks as they can easily stop working after system updates by WordPress.

Browsers

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Internet Browsers

Safari, Google Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer are all popular website browsers for PC’s and Apple Mac users. Computer owners use different operating systems as well as various versions of internet browsers. At design4dentists we check that your dental website is compatible with the most popular and up-to-date browsers.

Linking

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Linking

Navigating through a dental website is totally dependable on links connecting the patient to the right page or to the right source of information. Links can easily break when updating content or by interrupting existing coding. At design4dentists, we check and repair any broken links site-wide ensuring patients can land on the right page, click to email or to call your practice on a smartphone.

We will also ensure your website conforms to the recommendations and guidelines set by the General Dental Council (GDC) and Care Quality Commission (CQC).

Tracking

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Tracking

Tracking and tracing the visitors to your dental website is critical for future development. You will also want to make sure any statistics recorded are as accurate as possible. design4dentists will check Google Analytics for any bounce rate conflicts, bogus traffic and that Tag Manager is operating correctly.

Back-up

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Back-up

A dental website must always be backed up regularly. If you fail to continue your website hosting or forget to pay you may lose your whole website. Its not just the design, it’s the valuable content which has taken many hours to produce. We will always ensure your dental website is up-to-date on local and remote servers.

SEO

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Dental SEO

For more information about website maintenance or our SEO service for dentists contact design4dentists today or view our dental SEO packages.